From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:13:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgc9dz2x.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 25477.63008.581520.69804@tux.local
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> I faintly remember discussions back in the early seventies
> to replace "car" and "cdr" (which originally stood for
> "Contents of Address Register" and "Contents of Decrement
> Register", respectively
Cool B)
> and referred to machine instructions on some then modern PDP
> hardware which were used to access the two pointers of
> a cons) with "fst" and "rst" (for "first" and "rest",
> respectively) which could even be nicely combined to "frrst"
> and similar. But this proposal never made it :-(
Was that bad? I think `car' is more open and relaxed
than "fst" ...
PDP BTW,
PDP 1957 Programmed (-able) Data Processor, Digital Equipment minis
so as old as Fortran (1957) and older than Lisp (1958).
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-28 2:26 Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list Heime
2022-11-28 2:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28 3:45 ` Heime
2022-11-28 6:11 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-28 20:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 5:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 20:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28 22:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:01 ` Heime
2022-11-28 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-11-28 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-30 14:10 ` tomas
2022-11-30 16:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 22:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 5:23 ` tomas
2022-11-29 5:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 7:56 ` Heime
2022-11-29 8:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-29 10:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 10:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 10:15 ` Heime
2022-11-29 8:38 ` tomas
2022-11-29 9:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-29 8:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-29 8:44 ` tomas
2022-11-29 12:08 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-11-29 19:54 ` Of cars and mice [was: Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list] tomas
2022-11-30 1:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-30 1:13 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-11-28 19:59 ` Easy to add with push but not to the end of a list Emanuel Berg
2022-11-28 21:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-28 22:18 ` Heime
2022-11-28 22:41 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29 11:17 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-11-30 17:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-30 18:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-30 19:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-01 15:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-01 17:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-03 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-05 23:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 1:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06 1:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 2:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06 2:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-06 14:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06 2:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-06 17:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-06 22:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-08 23:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-28 23:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-31 16:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-31 22:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-01 12:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-08 4:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-09 6:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-14 12:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
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